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From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI in the 13th Century
Message-ID: <1658@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 15:52:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1658
Posted: Wed Jun 24 15:52:24 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 05:50:44 EDT
References: <1654@uwmacc.UUCP> <9810@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: edwards@unix.macc.wisc.edu (mark edwards)
Organization: UW-Madison Academic Computer Center
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Keywords: artificial intelligence, Raymond Lull, mechanical reasoning

In article <9810@duke.cs.duke.edu> mps@duke.UUCP (Michael P. Smith) writes:
:
:> A number of people have asked about the reference to AI in the
:> 13th Century. Well I finally dug up the ole notebook and picked
:> it out. Unfortunately all I have is a name. The name is
:>
:Lull, Raymond. 1236-1315.

:I believe that much of Lull's work is available in English translation.
:
:No doubt some interesting comparisons can be drawn between Lull's
:program and, say, conceptual dependency theory.  But as to Mark's
:claim that Lull used the term 'artificial intelligence', I suspect
:that such usage occurs only in the mind of the translator.

  No. As I said the book was in latin. Of course the words that I thought
were Artificial intelligence (something like artificialus intelligencus)
might mean something completely different in english.

But thanks for the reference.

mark
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